* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

* August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall ( July 2, 1908January 24, 1993 ) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991.

* Facsimiles of letters to the Justice Department and Thurgood Marshall from the Kennedy library

Five Solicitors General have later served on the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft ( who was Chief Justice of the United States ), Stanley Forman Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, and Elena Kagan.

Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall sat in on most of the proceedings and declared that he saw a prejudiced court.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell.

The NAACP, led by the soon-to-be first black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, was successful in challenging the constitutional viability of the separate but equal doctrine, and the court voted to overturn sixty years of law that had developed under Plessy.

Justice Thurgood Marshall argued that the term " national security " was too broad to legitimize prior restraint, and also argued that it is not the Court ’ s job to create laws where the Congress had not spoken.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, joined by Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell.

Following graduation from Yale, Carter served as a law clerk for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and, subsequently, for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

He was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall ( 1986 – 87 term ).

* Glen M. Darbyshire JD 1984-served as a supreme court clerk for former Associate Justice of the United States, Thurgood Marshall from 1986-1987.

In a 2008 U. S. Supreme Court decision involving the constitutionality of a law enacted by the New York Legislature, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his concurring opinion: " s I recall my esteemed former colleague, Thurgood Marshall, remarking on numerous occasions: ' The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.

In the 1978 case of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, the Supreme Court, in a 6-2 opinion authored by Justice William Rehnquist concluded that tribal courts do not have jurisdiction over non-Indians ( the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at that time, Warren Burger, and Justice Thurgood Marshall filed a dissenting opinion ).

In both cases, William J. Brennan wrote the majority opinion, joined by Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy ( Kennedy also authored a separate concurrence in Johnson ), and the dissenters in both cases were then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist ( who authored a dissent in Johnson ), and Justices John Paul Stevens ( who authored dissents in both cases ), Byron White and Sandra Day O ' Connor.

That same academic year, she became the first woman to win " Best Oralist " in the law school's prestigious Ames Moot Court Competition, judged by a panel including Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

The court opinion was written by William Rehnquist ; a dissenting opinion was written by Thurgood Marshall, who was joined by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.

Justice Thurgood Marshall dissents, saying he believes that the right to punish all individuals who commit crimes against tribal law within the reservation is a necessary aspect of the tribes sovereignty.

* Thurgood Marshall :( 1908 – 1991 ) American civil rights attorney and Associate Justice Of the United State Supreme Court

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, named for Baltimore native and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, is the law library for the University of Maryland School of Law.

As first Chief Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John Marshall.

In an age of oratory, he was the king of orators, and both he himself and Chief Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncle Dan'l reached his thundering climax:

It acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century — a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.

As the law of corporations was articulated by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall, over the first several decades of the new American state, emphasis fell, in a way which seems natural to us today, upon commercial corporations.

* Samuel Dexter, U. S. Representative, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, administered the oath of office to Chief Justice John Marshall

* 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.

John Marshall, later Chief Justice of the United States, was among his classmates.

* 1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.

The Court, with John Marshall as Chief Justice, found firstly that Madison's refusal to deliver the commission was both illegal and remediable.

This task fell to John Marshall, who, even though recently appointed Chief Justice of the United States, continued as the acting Secretary of State at President Adams's personal request.

One scholar counted thirty-one cases during this period in which courts found statutes unconstitutional, concluding: " The sheer number of these decisions not only belies the notion that the institution of judicial review was created by Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury, it also reflects widespread acceptance and application of the doctrine.

Inscription on the wall of the United States Supreme Court Building | Supreme Court Building from Marbury v. Madison, in which Chief Justice John Marshall outlined the concept of judicial review.

An engraving of Justice Marshall made by Charles-Balthazar-Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin in 1808.

Chief Justice Marshall wrote the opinion of the court.

Chief Justice Marshall, however, did not address jurisdictional issues until addressing the first two questions presented above.

Also, it has been argued that Justice Marshall should have recused himself on the grounds that he was still acting Secretary of State at the time the commissions were to be delivered and it was his brother, James Marshall, who was charged with delivering a number of the commissions.

In that case, Chief Justice John Marshall drew a distinction between two different functions of the Secretary of State.

* His first cousin twice removed was Supreme Court Justice John Marshall.

Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Captain Little could indeed be sued for damages in the case.

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

* 1755 – John Marshall, American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1835 )

Later, Chief Justice John Marshall suggested that the judgment of one state court must be recognized by other states ' courts as final.

In his dissent, Justice Marshall explained the history of the Section 2 in relation to the Post-Civil War Reconstruction era: